I'm moving to the suburbs

[Anonymous]

Everything on your list is available in Falls Church City as others have mentioned. If you can afford a house in McLean or Langley pyramids you can afford FCC, although as others also mentioned inventory is low. You might have to start with a townhouse.

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Anonymous wrote:It depends on how many kids OP would need to be paying private school for. With 2 or more kids, I can see how someone could afford quite a lot of house but not be able to throw $100K+ in after-tax money at tuition.

I was thinking the list sounded like City of Falls Church.

Exactly. OP here -- I have three kids, our budget is up to 1.5M I am ok with a fixer upper -- but simply cannot throw 100k a year at private, I'd rather stretch a little on my monthly mortgage

In Virginia, look at Falls Church Greenway Downs neighborhood - most of those houses are zoned to McLean ES.
Also look at Marshall High School

Sorry, Mclean High, not ES

Greenway Downs feeds into Falls Church HS, not McLean HS. There are some other neighborhoods nearby on the other side of Route 29 such as Donna Lee Gardens that feed into McLean HS.

My friends in Greenway Downs live in houses that feed into McLean. Maybe they're confused about their neighborhood, or maybe you are.

I live in Greenway Downs. We are zoned Falls Church. No where in Greenway Downs is zoned for McLean.

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Anonymous wrote:It depends on how many kids OP would need to be paying private school for. With 2 or more kids, I can see how someone could afford quite a lot of house but not be able to throw $100K+ in after-tax money at tuition.

I was thinking the list sounded like City of Falls Church.

Exactly. OP here -- I have three kids, our budget is up to 1.5M I am ok with a fixer upper -- but simply cannot throw 100k a year at private, I'd rather stretch a little on my monthly mortgage

In Virginia, look at Falls Church Greenway Downs neighborhood - most of those houses are zoned to McLean ES.
Also look at Marshall High School

Sorry, Mclean High, not ES

Greenway Downs feeds into Falls Church HS, not McLean HS. There are some other neighborhoods nearby on the other side of Route 29 such as Donna Lee Gardens that feed into McLean HS.

My friends in Greenway Downs live in houses that feed into McLean. Maybe they're confused about their neighborhood, or maybe you are.

I live in Greenway Downs. We are zoned Falls Church. No where in Greenway Downs is zoned for McLean.

I live near that area. Nothing in Greenway Downs is zoned for McLean High and it never has been.

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Anonymous wrote:We are officially moving but I don't even know where to begin... Tell me what neighborhood / block / elementary school you live in and love... here are my specific asks:

- Needs to funnel into a top PUBLIC high school (we don't have private school money) (I'm looking at Whitman, Wootton, BCC, Walter Johnson in MD and Langley, McLean districts in VA)
- Needs to be within commuting distance to Georgetown
- Needs to be densely populated (houses close together, super neighborhood feel, mature trees would be a plus, I need a yard but I don't want a big one)
- Needs to have a community that gets together a lot / kids outside playing / parents that like to have drinks together etc.
- A plus would be a pool that everyone goes to
- a bigger plus would be that most neighborhood kids go to the public school (rather than private)

The beset commute to G'town would be from close-in VA areas: Arlington, FCC and McLean. If you want a TOP public school, it would have to be zoned to McLean High. If you are willing to consider simply a very good public school rather than "TOP", it can also be zoned to Madison High and Marshall High.

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Anonymous wrote:We are officially moving but I don't even know where to begin... Tell me what neighborhood / block / elementary school you live in and love... here are my specific asks:

- Needs to funnel into a top PUBLIC high school (we don't have private school money) (I'm looking at Whitman, Wootton, BCC, Walter Johnson in MD and Langley, McLean districts in VA)
- Needs to be within commuting distance to Georgetown
- Needs to be densely populated (houses close together, super neighborhood feel, mature trees would be a plus, I need a yard but I don't want a big one)
- Needs to have a community that gets together a lot / kids outside playing / parents that like to have drinks together etc.
- A plus would be a pool that everyone goes to
- a bigger plus would be that most neighborhood kids go to the public school (rather than private)

The beset commute to G'town would be from close-in VA areas: Arlington, FCC and McLean. If you want a TOP public school, it would have to be zoned to McLean High. If you are willing to consider simply a very good public school rather than "TOP", it can also be zoned to Madison High and Marshall High.

Madison is a very good high school. But it's not great for a commute to Georgetown since it's further out and, while it's near the Vienna Metro, Georgetown doesn't have a Metro station.

There are some closer-in areas zoned for Marshall in Falls Church, but the county seems intent on loading Marshall up with multiple affordable housing projects in Tysons, so the school's academic profile stands to decline.

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Anonymous wrote:We are officially moving but I don't even know where to begin... Tell me what neighborhood / block / elementary school you live in and love... here are my specific asks:

- Needs to funnel into a top PUBLIC high school (we don't have private school money) (I'm looking at Whitman, Wootton, BCC, Walter Johnson in MD and Langley, McLean districts in VA)
- Needs to be within commuting distance to Georgetown
- Needs to be densely populated (houses close together, super neighborhood feel, mature trees would be a plus, I need a yard but I don't want a big one)
- Needs to have a community that gets together a lot / kids outside playing / parents that like to have drinks together etc.
- A plus would be a pool that everyone goes to
- a bigger plus would be that most neighborhood kids go to the public school (rather than private)

The beset commute to G'town would be from close-in VA areas: Arlington, FCC and McLean. If you want a TOP public school, it would have to be zoned to McLean High. If you are willing to consider simply a very good public school rather than "TOP", it can also be zoned to Madison High and Marshall High.

OP mentioned Langley HS in McLean. That is better than McLean HS

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Anonymous wrote:We are officially moving but I don't even know where to begin... Tell me what neighborhood / block / elementary school you live in and love... here are my specific asks:

- Needs to funnel into a top PUBLIC high school (we don't have private school money) (I'm looking at Whitman, Wootton, BCC, Walter Johnson in MD and Langley, McLean districts in VA)
- Needs to be within commuting distance to Georgetown
- Needs to be densely populated (houses close together, super neighborhood feel, mature trees would be a plus, I need a yard but I don't want a big one)
- Needs to have a community that gets together a lot / kids outside playing / parents that like to have drinks together etc.
- A plus would be a pool that everyone goes to
- a bigger plus would be that most neighborhood kids go to the public school (rather than private)

The beset commute to G'town would be from close-in VA areas: Arlington, FCC and McLean. If you want a TOP public school, it would have to be zoned to McLean High. If you are willing to consider simply a very good public school rather than "TOP", it can also be zoned to Madison High and Marshall High.

OP mentioned Langley HS in McLean. That is better than McLean HS

Rational people understand there is virtually no difference between Langley and McLean HS.

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Anonymous wrote:We are officially moving but I don't even know where to begin... Tell me what neighborhood / block / elementary school you live in and love... here are my specific asks:

- Needs to funnel into a top PUBLIC high school (we don't have private school money) (I'm looking at Whitman, Wootton, BCC, Walter Johnson in MD and Langley, McLean districts in VA)
- Needs to be within commuting distance to Georgetown
- Needs to be densely populated (houses close together, super neighborhood feel, mature trees would be a plus, I need a yard but I don't want a big one)
- Needs to have a community that gets together a lot / kids outside playing / parents that like to have drinks together etc.
- A plus would be a pool that everyone goes to
- a bigger plus would be that most neighborhood kids go to the public school (rather than private)

The beset commute to G'town would be from close-in VA areas: Arlington, FCC and McLean. If you want a TOP public school, it would have to be zoned to McLean High. If you are willing to consider simply a very good public school rather than "TOP", it can also be zoned to Madison High and Marshall High.

OP mentioned Langley HS in McLean. That is better than McLean HS

Langley HS has a nicer, renovated building and isn't as crowded as McLean HS. But McLean HS neighborhoods probably meet more of OP's specifications - more neighborhoods close to Georgetown, greater housing density, more mid-size rather than large yards, more community (vs. private) pools, a higher percentage of kids going to public (vs. private) schools, and more properties in OP's budget ($1.5M or less).

[Anonymous]

For 1.5m in Arlington you can look at ashlawn elementary neighborhoods. The closer to ballston or va square the more urban and less/no yard.
Any pool in n Arlington has about a 5 year waitlist.

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Anonymous wrote:We are officially moving but I don't even know where to begin... Tell me what neighborhood / block / elementary school you live in and love... here are my specific asks:

- Needs to funnel into a top PUBLIC high school (we don't have private school money) (I'm looking at Whitman, Wootton, BCC, Walter Johnson in MD and Langley, McLean districts in VA)
- Needs to be within commuting distance to Georgetown
- Needs to be densely populated (houses close together, super neighborhood feel, mature trees would be a plus, I need a yard but I don't want a big one)
- Needs to have a community that gets together a lot / kids outside playing / parents that like to have drinks together etc.
- A plus would be a pool that everyone goes to
- a bigger plus would be that most neighborhood kids go to the public school (rather than private)

The beset commute to G'town would be from close-in VA areas: Arlington, FCC and McLean. If you want a TOP public school, it would have to be zoned to McLean High. If you are willing to consider simply a very good public school rather than "TOP", it can also be zoned to Madison High and Marshall High.

Why would you leave Meridian HS off that list?

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Anonymous wrote:We are officially moving but I don't even know where to begin... Tell me what neighborhood / block / elementary school you live in and love... here are my specific asks:

- Needs to funnel into a top PUBLIC high school (we don't have private school money) (I'm looking at Whitman, Wootton, BCC, Walter Johnson in MD and Langley, McLean districts in VA)
- Needs to be within commuting distance to Georgetown
- Needs to be densely populated (houses close together, super neighborhood feel, mature trees would be a plus, I need a yard but I don't want a big one)
- Needs to have a community that gets together a lot / kids outside playing / parents that like to have drinks together etc.
- A plus would be a pool that everyone goes to
- a bigger plus would be that most neighborhood kids go to the public school (rather than private)

The beset commute to G'town would be from close-in VA areas: Arlington, FCC and McLean. If you want a TOP public school, it would have to be zoned to McLean High. If you are willing to consider simply a very good public school rather than "TOP", it can also be zoned to Madison High and Marshall High.

Madison is a very good high school. But it's not great for a commute to Georgetown since it's further out and, while it's near the Vienna Metro, Georgetown doesn't have a Metro station.

There are some closer-in areas zoned for Marshall in Falls Church, but the county seems intent on loading Marshall up with multiple affordable housing projects in Tysons, so the school's academic profile stands to decline.

Racist post. You people are just unbelievable.

[Anonymous]

Potomac Glen has all of these things. Pool and clubhouse included in the HOA. Longish commute for you though.

[Anonymous]

Great neighborhood, great pool, great HS; plus commuting distance to Georgetown:

https://www.redfin.com/MD/Silver-Spring/108-Stonegate-Dr-20905/home/10573923

https://www.redfin.com/MD/Silver-Spring/14617-Sandy-Ridge-Rd-20905/home/10579959

https://www.redfin.com/MD/Silver-Spring/15229-Centergate-Dr-20905/home/10574538

https://www.redfin.com/MD/Silver-Spring/14916-Flintstone-Ln-20905/home/10574816

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Great neighborhood, great pool, great HS; plus commuting distance to Georgetown:

https://www.redfin.com/MD/Silver-Spring/108-Stonegate-Dr-20905/home/10573923

https://www.redfin.com/MD/Silver-Spring/14617-Sandy-Ridge-Rd-20905/home/10579959

https://www.redfin.com/MD/Silver-Spring/15229-Centergate-Dr-20905/home/10574538

https://www.redfin.com/MD/Silver-Spring/14916-Flintstone-Ln-20905/home/10574816

ps: another great neighborhood, great pool, within commuting distance, another great HS in the same cluster:

https://www.redfin.com/MD/Silver-Spring/513-Highgate-Ter-20904/home/10565760

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Anonymous wrote:We are officially moving but I don't even know where to begin... Tell me what neighborhood / block / elementary school you live in and love... here are my specific asks:

- Needs to funnel into a top PUBLIC high school (we don't have private school money) (I'm looking at Whitman, Wootton, BCC, Walter Johnson in MD and Langley, McLean districts in VA)
- Needs to be within commuting distance to Georgetown
- Needs to be densely populated (houses close together, super neighborhood feel, mature trees would be a plus, I need a yard but I don't want a big one)
- Needs to have a community that gets together a lot / kids outside playing / parents that like to have drinks together etc.
- A plus would be a pool that everyone goes to
- a bigger plus would be that most neighborhood kids go to the public school (rather than private)

The beset commute to G'town would be from close-in VA areas: Arlington, FCC and McLean. If you want a TOP public school, it would have to be zoned to McLean High. If you are willing to consider simply a very good public school rather than "TOP", it can also be zoned to Madison High and Marshall High.

Madison is a very good high school. But it's not great for a commute to Georgetown since it's further out and, while it's near the Vienna Metro, Georgetown doesn't have a Metro station.

There are some closer-in areas zoned for Marshall in Falls Church, but the county seems intent on loading Marshall up with multiple affordable housing projects in Tysons, so the school's academic profile stands to decline.

Racist post. You people are just unbelievable.

The racist folks are those who concentrate the affordable housing in certain areas and go out of their way to ensure the catchment areas for other schools have little or no housing diversity. Take it up with them.